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onerously
adverb
uk /ˈəʊ.nər.əs.li/ us /ˈoʊ.nɚ.əs.li/
in a way that needs a lot of effort, or causes a lot of difficulty or worry:
Getting up at 6 a.m. for a training session every day has become onerously repetitive.
The only way to enforce change is to make it onerously costly for businesses to pollute the rivers.
The industry has become so onerously regulated that it is very unattractive for new businesses.
The increase in energy prices will affect the country's poorest citizens most onerously.
The responsibility of looking after his elderly parents weighed onerously on him.
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